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I have some nice big green slimer frags available if you're interested. Also several types of montis.

Stop. Taking. Vacations.
A couple of kids should fix that right up for you.  Live a boring existence tied to your home and tank like the rest of us.  

I guess I have a vacation curse, because every time I take a vacation some disaster befalls my tank. Last year there was a power outage while I was gone and following that I lost several thousand in SPS and my coral health never really rebounded to what it was pre-trip. This year an anemone somehow found its way out of its cage and into a powerhead within days of me leaving.

This anemone was in a cage for months and somehow got out within a couple days of me leaving the country? Really?! I leave town for work every other week and something like this happens when my wife and I are on the other side of the world?! [emoji36]Luckily an extremely good friend and reliable hobbyist in my neighborhood was available to perform an emergency water change and removed some dead fish. From my count I only have 3 fish left in the tank and I used to have over 20.


I returned home last night and was too tired to perform water tests, but without my grazing fish anymore, ulva exploded. I tore out what was growing near the surface of the tank and it was pretty substantial. Probably going to tear everything out and re-aquascape while I’m essentially fishless. [emoji58]

Photos from my recent diving and snorkeling trip in Hurghada, Egypt.

Hate to hear that!  How do you know when your CO2 is going to run out?  Does the pressure decrease gradually or die all at once like propane?

With all the crap you come home to after your trips, you should market your corals as "Travel Tested[emoji2400]"  [emoji39]

When you get home from a week in Wyoming and your CO2 cylinder is bled dry and your alk dropped from 8.3 to 5.2, you use what CO2 you have until you can swap out the 20lb cylinder [emoji23]

Anemone is now in the tank. Short video of its first day. 1 cycle of the sea swirl blowing over the top of it. If it does not move by tomorrow I will take it off the glass bowl and leave it there on the rock.
 

I need to run something that an remove heavy metals, carbon won't do much, but that's all I had on hand and I had to fly out of town this week. Probably going to order some Metasorb soon.

I haven’t posted in a while, it’s hard to get excited about the hobby when you’ve been struggling with mysterious coral deaths for nearly a year with no major culprit or solution. Yesterday though I may have *possibly* found a smoking fun. I was performing a water change and noticed the magnet holding my PH was slipping a bit. Pulled it off and noticed my hand was covered in black and there were some bumps on the magnet


Needless to say I tossed the magnet immediately, changed 20 gallons, and put new carbon in the reactor. Really really hoping this has been the cause of my most recent coral struggles.

It overwhelms the camera sensors! I have to turn exposure way down. It glows bright enough to cast its own shadows as a light source under LEDs.


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Its a torch. Its pretty big now. Still only has 2 heads. Went from marble size to almost hardball size in 2 months. I got it to see if they would do ok before I got a fancy colored one. I dont have a nem yet. Maybe someday Ill get lucky.

One of my Nassarius snails deposited a batch of eggs this morning. Anyone have any luck with a hatch or do they get eaten?
 

FIFY


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1. UC unnamed (aspera?)
2. UC Blue Flame Stag
3. UC Slytherin Stag
4. Unnamed acro from Seaside Tropical
5. UC Night Walker
6. UC Purple Cookie Monster
7. UC unnamed purple tip stag

-edit just realized i was replying to a very old portion of this therad-
Have you found an air pimp that has an inlet that you could connect to an outside airline?
I was going to experiment with micro bubbles, but wanted to run outside air as my house always has high CO2. I already did the hard part and ran 1/2 pex tubing though a few walls to get an outside line into my stand for my skimmer. Seems like I could hack something together with a USB charger and this pump: 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2Pcs-DC-3V-6V-5V-370-Motor-Mini-Micro-Air-Pump-Vacuum-For-Aquarium-Tank-Oxygen/113589840598?hash=item1a727b6ad6:g:vJgAAOSwolpcSAVb&frcectupt=true
 

Haha yeah, there hasn't been much to share since my tank has been slowly recovering from the mystery issues that started when I was on vacation last June. Things are still recovering, but randomly see SPS issues from time to time. I'm running Fluco again since GHA popped back up. I'm currently at one month of treatment with no protein skimmer and no carbon, which could be the cause of any current struggles. I'm trying to soldier on as long as I can to avoid the GHA from springing back as quickly as it did last time.

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I have green slimer and ORA chips acro. I also have other acro frags and several encrusting montis (sunset, superman, chili pepper, rainbow)

Lol! Ty too!

I gave him back a large piece. Before hand


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Not really sure. I tested and nothing seemed out of wack. I glued and cut several Frags which would usually stop it but they all kept rtn’ing. After I couldn’t figure anything out I added a fresh bag of carbon on top of my return and the remaining Frags appear to have stopped. Looks like I’ve saved about 4.5 Frags so I’ll be able to regrow. Just weird since nothing else was affected. Darn SPS


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